Check-lock for mine-cars.



No. 831,106. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

s. RUDOLPH. v CHECK LOCK FOR MINE CARS.

APPLICATION FILED DEOA. 1905.

Witnesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL RUDOLPH, OF LANSING, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOB E. JONES, OF LANSING, KANSAS.

CHECK-LOCK FOR MINE-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18,1906.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL RUDOLPH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lansing, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Check-Lock for Mine-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to check-locks for mine-cars, and has for its object to provide an improved device of this character which may be conveniently applied to a car and is always in condition to readily receive the miners check.

While the accompanying drawings show the present device used in connection with a ring-shaped check, it is capable of being used with any form of check having an opening to receive the bill of the hook.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any 0 the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a check-lock for mine-cars embodying the features of the present invention. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the hook member of the device.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

The present invention includes a hook having a straight shank 1, terminating at one end in an eye 2 and at its other end in a bill 3, struck from the eye 2 as a center. The outer end portion of the shank is bowed, as at 4, with the bill 3 carried by one extremity of the bowed portion and lying in the same plane with the shank 1 of the eye 2. This hook is pivotally mounted upon an attaching-plate 5 by means of a rivet 6, passed through the eye and piercing the plate. Upon the plate there is a loop or keeper 7, arranged for engagement by the bill of the hook. The plate is furthermore provided with perforations for the reception of fastenings 8, whereby the plate may be attached to any convenient portion of a car-body 9.

In practice the hook is swung to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and then a ring-shaped check 10 is passed over the bill 3 and engaged with the bowed or ofiset seat portion 4 of the hook, after which the latter is swung downwardly with its bill engaged through the keeper or latch 7. When thus applied, the check hangs from the lower side of the body portion 4, and the open side of the body portion is closed by the plate 5, wherefore displacement of the ring from the hook is prevented. The check may of course be conveniently removed by swinging the hook upwardly to the dotted-line position in Fig. 1, which brings the open side of the part 4 above the top of the car, whereby the open side of the seat 4 is unobstructed and the ring may be conveniently removed from the hook.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that the present invention is embodied in a complete device which is in the nature of an attachment and may be readily applied to any ordinary mine-car without requiring any alteration therein and when applied may be conveniently manipulated to receive and to enable the convenient removal of a miners check.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- 1. The combination with a mine-car, of a swinging hook having its shank provided with a laterally bowed portion which is' closed by the body of the car.

2. A check-lock for mine-cars comprising an attachingplate, a swinging hook carried by the plate and provided with a bowed portion ofiset laterally from the plate, said plate normally closing the open side of the body portion of the hook, and a keeper carried by the plate for engagement by the bill of the hook.

3. The combination with a car of achecklock comprising a hook swung upon one side of the car adjacent the top thereof, and a keeper for thehook in the depending position of the latter, the shank of the hook having a bowed portion disposed at substantially right angles to the adjacent side of the car my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in vsiith dtil'e t 1)1pen s'idedof thegliovvfeg1 pkortiog the presence of two Witnesses. c ose y e car, sa1 open s1 e 0 e owe v portion being located above the top of the SAMUEL RUDOLPH 5 car and unobstructed When the hook is swung Witnesses:

upwardly to receive a check. J. E. JONES, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as H.-J ONES. 

